About Rembrandt Rides a Bike: A Julia Fairchild Mystery:
She gets taken on the ride of her life…
Julia and sister Carly embark on a dancing tour that takes them to exciting cities along the Rhine River. When a Russian dancer disappears, they are all shaken when she is found dead a day later in an abandoned warehouse.
The next day, from the top of a cathedral in Germany, Julia recognizes an eccentric couple, a pair of art collectors, in the crowd of tourists on the ground below. They’d met them a few days earlier in an art museum–from which valuable art had been stolen that very day. Julia tries to tell the local authorities of her suspicion but, being in foreign territory, she is not taken seriously.
While Carly is ready to chalk Julia’s worries up to her sister’s wild imagination, Julia can’t shake the feeling that someone is watching her from the wings while she’s on the dance stage. But who? And why?
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Author Bio:
PJ Peterson began writing mysteries once she retired from her career as an internal medicine physician. It was a natural choice considering that she had read all the Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden books when she was younger, graduating to Agatha Christie and other mystery authors over time.
Her first series, Julia Fairchild Mysteries, features Julia Fairchild, MD, a smart and curious young doctor who is much braver than the author (who has yet to try sky-diving). She has her first brush with death in Blind Fish Don’t Talk. Starting with Rembrandt Rides a Bike, younger sister Carly Pedersen enters the stage..in more ways than one.
Her novels include a touch of humor with her sidekick sister Carly providing much of that. And with her medical background, she sprinkles in something related to health or disease whenever it fits the story. She says a doctor is just a detective wearing a white coat.
One professional reviewer has described Julia as “Jessica Fletcheresque,” à la Murder She Wrote.
After seven Julia novels, she was itching to play with more characters and started a new series–Christie’s Flower Shoppe Cozy Mystery Series. Young Christie O’Mara has reopened her recently-deceased grandmother’s flower shop in the town where she grew up. Her flower bouquets are known for hidden messages, but in several cases, the message was murder. Killer Flowers is the first novel, with Killer Wedding six months later. More books are in the works.